On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver continued his weekly public service of processing seven days’ worth of hateful, dispiriting bullshit into a half-hour of expertly modulated, laugh-punctuated comic outrage, as he took a look at the United States’ long and morally queasy relationship with the oil-rich…

Reddit can be a fun place, where the hottest memes are born and people can connect with other people who like the same hot memes they do, but it has also historically provided an outlet for truly horrible people to connect with other horrible people, rather than simply sitting back and allowing society to shun them…

In September, Avengers 4 directors Joe and Anthony Russo tweeted a mysterious image that was apparently from the set of the still-mysterious superhero sequel, asking fans to “look hard” for clues. On Friday, the Russos announced that they had completed production on the still-untitled Avengers 4, commemorating the…

Back in December, J.K. Rowling noted that she’s “genuinely happy” to have Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald (a spin-off of her Harry Potter books), despite the allegations that Depp physically abused his ex-wife Amber Heard. Rowling cited Depp and Heard’s divorce settlement, including their…

Werner Herzog has once again spun his great wheel of Documentary Subjects, soaring past the internet and volcanoes since he already covered those, and it has now apparently landed on “meteors.” According to Variety, Herzog has just announced that his next documentary feature is Fireball, a film about the influence of…

Earlier this month, Chris Evans tweeted that he had finished his work filming Avengers 4, most likely bringing his time as Captain America in the MCU to an end. He noted that it was an “emotional day to say the least,” which would be an understandable reaction for a guy who was the heart of these massive movies for…

Not that he rates anywhere on the list of people negatively affected by anything now-convicted rapist Bill Cosby has done in his life, but poor Kenan Thompson. Despite having a solid Cosby impression in his back pocket all these years (he was play Fat Albert, for crying out loud), Thompson has had to keep his Cosby…

For most of us, the release of the recent teaser for Disney’s live-action, Guy Ritchie-directed Aladdin was little more than a digital comma, a 90-second lacuna in which our brains neutrally registered the thought, “Oh, yep, that’s Aladdin,” and then moved on. But for at least one of the people partially responsible…

Amazon’s celebrated Emmy-winner Transparent has been in flux for almost a year now, ever since multiple women involved in the show’s production accused star Jeffrey Tambor of sexual harassment. Tambor has since been fired and/or loudly quit the series, which has been forced to decide where to go in the absence of its…

Like an unemployed, daytime TV-addicted 25-year-old with a Joy Behar fetish, the American government has now expressed some uncomfortably strong opinions about The View. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders took aim at the long-running ABC chat show last night, when she expressed umbrage on Twitter at a comment…

As with so many places where entertainment and emotion intersect, rap beefs exist in a weird, semi-real space. On the one hand, they’re pure marketing moves—a way for two performers to raise each other’s profiles, show off their lyrical cleverness, and hopefully sell a few extra albums. But they’re also often the…

Good news, Danny Rand fans! After years of trailing along sadly behind other, better, more interesting shows, Marvel’s Iron Fist has finally found a way to distinguish itself from its fellow Netflix Marvel entries: By being the first one to get kicked out of a window and straight into Cancellation Land.

Netflix released the first season of The Haunting Of Hill House today, Mike Flanagan’s family-focused (but absolutely not family-friendly) adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel classic. We’ve got lots of coverage of the series to help accompany your latest trip into the realm of streaming terror—including Katie…

Let’s start with a dark, furtive confession: Divorced of its association with millions of repeats, remixes, and sound clips of Mike Myers screaming “Donkey!”, Smash Mouth’s hit anthem “All Star” is still a pretty damn catchy song. Relentlessly bright and fast-paced, it’s an earworm for a reason, even if its been so…

Spider-Man’s proving to be quite a Clothes-Horse in his upcoming Homecoming sequel, Far From Home: Crafty photographers (including Instagram account comicgodz) have snapped a few new shots of Tom Holland on the set of the 2019 film, sporting what’s apparently the fourth distinct spider suit that’s been spotted in…

Amid the thousand or so projects he’s working on at any given moment—which currently include Jungle Cruise, Fast And Furious spin-off Hobbs And Shaw, Black Adam, a Jumanji sequel, and his controversial decision to play black folk hero John Henry for Netflix—you’d be forgiven for letting a few of Dwayne Johnson’s…

Ozzy Osbourne is canceling the remaining four dates on his North American tour, Rolling Stone reports, due to an infection in his right hand, the very same hand he’s used to set chickens on fire, toss TVs through windows, and shovel life-threatening amounts of drugs into his system.

Since breaking into Hollywood, writer/director Denis Villeneuve has been on an absolute tear. His most recent films, which include the excellent Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival, are beguiling, beautiful reminders that show mainstream cinema still has room for genre work blending both thoughtfulness and action.

We ride hard for the Universal Soldier films here at The A.V. Club, though not the 1992 original so much as its direct-to-video sequels like Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning. “On almost every level, the 21st century iterations of the Universal Soldier series are more exciting,…